After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
This means a drive to the end of an extremely rough, unpaved road, snaking along the spine of the island's northern mountain range, filled with phenomenal views, jaw-chattering potholes and precipitous drops.
Because a structural spine runs under the middle of the roadbed, the designers could attach the cable fans to the spine in a single row, rather than securing a double set of cables to beams at either edge of the road.